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When you disable the kernel-mode authentication option in IIS 7, make sure you will do an IISReset. Recycling the app pool is not enough. I was doing some debugging/testing with a WCF service using basicHttpBinding with a TransportCredentialOnly security...

WaitForWspJob.exe is a tool for SharePoint 2007 that will wait for the Admin Service to finish the deployment or retraction of a SharePoint solution (wsp). Download page: http://blog.michelbarneveld.nl/media/p/5623.aspx Usage The tool accepts the solution...

Quite often I am wondering if a site is using Kerberos or NTLM. You can use tools like Fiddler, Network Monitor and such for that. But sometimes I just want to have a simple tool without installation like when working on computers where you can't...

[4/26/2010] Updated with interface changes from beta2 to rtm In SharePoint 2010 there is a new feature called the Document ID . When that feature is enabled, it will assign an unique ID and a permanent url to the document in a document library. Documents...

2 Weeks ago I wrote a post about kernel-mode authentication and SharePoint 2010 . One of my questions was: What is the performance benefit of using kernel-mode authentication? I did some testing last week and now I had time to analyze the results and...

My laptop, an Acer Aspire 7720G, has an Intel T7500 Core 2 Duo Mobile CPU. This CPU has support for hardware-assisted Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT). That's the reason why I bought this laptop some years ago. It was a big disappointment...

Note: This was written when the beta of SharePoint 2010 came out. It's now known that this configuration is not supported by Microsoft! I was wondering what authentication settings SharePoint 2010 will use when creating a new Web Application. Because...

"Do not use CNAME dns records and non default web ports when using Kerberos!" The last 2 years I have done quite some Kerberos review and troubleshooting sessions (usually in combination with SharePoint) for big customers of Imtech but also...

Today I created a new virtual machine to do some SharePoint 2010 testing. First installed Windows 2008 R2, then added and configured the DNS and Active Directory roles. Installed Sql Server 2008 R2. Started the install of SharePoint 2010. Untill this...

I was testing something with SharePoint 2010 and needed a deeper look on what was actually send over the wire. So I started fiddler and noticed a few HTTP headers in the response that were new to me. The new headers: MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices This...